September 22-23 Sun Valley, Idaho

Conversations with Exceptional Women

“What is Success?”

2016

Program ScheduleMISSIONThe Alturas Institute is

a non-partisan, educational organization dedicated to advancing

civic education, civil dialogue and civic engagement. It is our core

belief that an informed citizenry is essential to the health, maintenance

and integrity of the Republic. Toward those ends, the Alturas

Institute works independently and collaboratively to facilitate broader

understanding, deeper knowledge and bridges to consensus.

LEADERSHIPDavid Adler, President

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:Steve Carr, Chairman

Doug Oppenheimer, TreasurerClay Morgan, Secretary

Barbara MorganCaroline Heldman

Jeff NeiswangerTim HopkinsMark Young

The Carr Foundation

The Longaberger Family

Foundation

Steve & Cindy Carr

Elizabeth Redleaf

Thank You To our SponSorS

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 228:00-8:45 RegistrationandCoffee

8:45-9:00 IntroductoryRemarks

9:00-10:00 RachaelMcClinton,“HearMyVoice.”

10:00-10:55 What Progress Have Women Made? AnneTaylorFleming, CarolineHeldman,JoanneFreeman, KathleenBrown,MariaGiese, JenniferSeibelNewsom, withKarenCrouse,moderator

10:55-11:35 Women in Politics CarolineHeldmanandKathleenBrown withAnneTaylorFleming,moderator

11:40-12:10 The Hamilton Phenomenon JoanneFreeman,withDavidAdler,

12:15-1:30 Lunch

1:35-2:10 National Security Mom GinaBennett,withDavidAdler

2:15-3:15 Women in Media KarenCrouse,AnneTaylorFleming, ChristineWalker,MariaGiese, JenniferSeibelNewsom, withCarolineHeldman,moderator

3:30-5:00 Reception/BookSigning

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 238:00-8:45 Registration/Coffee

8:45-9:00 IntroductoryRemarks

9:00-9:45 Olympian Success in the Pool of Life ShirleyBabashoffandAllisonWagner, withKarenCrouse

9:45-10:30 Gold Medals in the Mountains KaitlynFarringtonwithKarenCrouse

10:30-11:00 Networking/BookSigning

11:00-12:00 Women in Hollywood: What is Success? MariaGiese,JenniferSeibelNewsom, ChristineWalker,with CarolineHeldman,moderator

12:00-1:15 Lunch

1:20-2:20 Advocating for Women in the Workplace SueToigo,CarolineHeldman, GinaBennett,MariaGiese, KathleenBrown,JoanneFreeman, withAnnTaylorFleming,moderator

2:20-3:20 Women Advocating for Women: Where do we go from here? MariaGiese,JenniferSiebelNewsom, RachaelMcClinton,JoanneFreeman, SueToigo,GinaBennett, AnneTaylorFleming,KathleenBrown, KarenCrouse,ShirleyBabashoff, KaitlynFarrington,CarolineHeldman, AnneTaylorFleming, withChristineWalker,moderator

3:20-3:30 ClosingRemarks

Dr. Caroline Heldman is an Associate Professor of Politics at Occidental College in Los Angeles and the principal researcher for the Geena Davis Institute for Gender in Media. Her research specializes in media, the presidency, and systems of power (race, class, gender). Dr. Heldman co-edited Rethinking Madame President: Are We Ready for

a Woman in the White House? (2007). Her forthcoming books are Consumer Activism in the U.S.: Some Democratic Implications (Cornell University Press, 2017) and Women, Power, and Politics: The Right for Gender Equality in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2017). Dr. Heldman has been active in “real world” politics as a professional pollster, campaign manager, and commentator for MSNBC, FOX News, Fox Business News, CNBC, and Al Jazeera America. She has also been featured in popular documentaries, including Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In, The Hunting Ground, and Informant. She splits her time between Los Angeles and New Orleans where she co-founded the New Orleans Women’s Shelter and the Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum. Dr. Heldman also co-founded End Rape on Campus (EROC) and Faculty Against Rape (FAR), and was one of the early architects of the new campus anti-rape movement.

Anne Taylor Fleming is a nationally recognized journalist and novelist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and Vogue, among other publications. For almost two decades she was an on-camera essayist for the NewsHour on PBS. She also did political and cultural commentary for CBS Radio and for NBC and CNN television.

Fleming was born in Los Angeles to actor parents and graduated with highest honors in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1971. She began her long free-lance writing career doing essays for Newsweek and assorted women’s magazines like Redbook. Those articles led to an ongoing relationship with The New York Times Magazine for which she wrote a number of cover stories, including one on Truman Capote and another on Teddy Kennedy when he ran for president. Later, she was a regular West Coast columnist for the daily New York Times.

Extending her voice into other media, in the 1980s she signed on to do commentary for CBS radio and subsequently began a long relationship with the NewsHour. For that show, she did many essays on everything from the idea of forgiveness to the proliferating overly-sexualized images of young girls. For those pieces, she was awarded the 2006 Gracie Allen Award from the Foundation of American Women in Radio and Television. She became a regular contributor to NBC during the O.J. Simpson trial and began making regular appearances on CNN.

She has written three books, the non-fiction Motherhood Deferred, about women of her baby boom generation who held off having children, and two works of fiction: Marriage: a Duet, two novellas about love and infidelity, and As If Love Were Enough, the story of two sisters who lose and find each other. About Marriage: a Duet, Entertainment Weekly said: “In her polished fiction debut, journalist Fleming weaves two novellas about infidelity into a graceful and gut-wrenching ode to marriage...Grade A.”

In the past decade, Fleming became a monthly columnist for Los Angeles Magazine and an ongoing contributor to Reuters. She has written many a piece about the Clintons and all the complicated feelings they engender. Currently writing another novel, Fleming is also the Associate Director of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, one of the most highly regarded annual literary gatherings. Fleming lives in Los Angeles.

Anne Taylor F lemingPrize-winning author, PBS Essayist

Dr. Caroline HeldmanAuthor, Rethinking Madame President: Are We Ready for a Woman in the White House?

About Our Speakers

Karen Crouse Sports Writer

Karen Crouse grew up in northern California and is a graduate of St. Francis High School in Mountain View and the University of Southern California, where she majored in journalism and minored in chlorine as a member of the women’s swim team. She has been at the New York Times for 10 years, the last five as the golf writer. She just

returned from Rio de Janeiro and her 10th Olympics, where she wrote about Michael Phelps, Katie Ledecky and the 74-year-old woman who coached the runner who won the 400-meters in world record time.

As a national-caliber swimmer, she bore daily witness to the Darwinian jungle of competition and was endlessly curious about what made some people thrive while others barely survived. She has spent her entire adult life interviewing athletes in an attempt to figure out what makes athletes tick.

Karen has told the story of Laveranues Coles, a Jets receiver who revealed to her his childhood sexual abuse, something he had kept a secret from his closest friends and favorite coaches. She has written about an NFL player whose mom has been a missing person for the past 25 years and of another whose sister was trying to follow in his footsteps by playing on her high school football team’s offensive line.

Her editors have described her as the Lucy Van Pelt of the sports world because of her knack for getting her subjects to open up to her. In 2011 Karen was honored by the Society of Silurians for a sports project on female athletes and motherhood. Her features have been recognized three times in the Best American Sportswriting and have been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors, the Green Eyeshade and the National Sportswriters Association. She is married and lives in Phoenix.

About Our Speakers

Christine WalkerPrize-Winning Film Director and Producer

An award-winning producer, Christine Walker is the president of New Globe Films, and the CEO and Executive Director of the Provincetown Film Society. Walker is also the founder and former president of Werk Work Works, a feature film finance and production company, Walker has dedicated her career to supporting independent production and independent makers of film. In addition to working on opportunities

for hundreds of independent filmmakers, Walker’s own films have premiered at virtually every major international film festival and have garnered more than 100 awards and recognitions.

Her film credits include: STAY THEN GO, directed by Shelli Ainsworth starring the WEST WING’S Janel Moloney as a mother of a child with autism; DARLING COMPANION (Sony Pictures Classics) directed by Lawrence Kasdan starring Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline; THE TURIN HORSE by Hungarian auteur Bela Tarr which was awarded the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize and the Fipresci International Press Prize at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival; the Sundance Film Festival premiere film THIN ICE (ATO) directed by Jill Sprecher with Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin and Billy Crudup; HOWL directed by academy award winning directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman starring James Franco as the beat poet Alan Ginsberg along with Jon Hamm, and David Straithairn.; the Todd Solondz directed LIFE DURING WARTIME which won Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival in 2010 and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards. Walker also co-wrote and produced OLDER THAN AMERICA starring Adam Beach and Bradley Cooper; FACTOTUM starring Matt Dillon, Lily Taylor and Marisa Tomei, and line produced the academy award nominated AMERICAN SPLENDOR which garnered more than thirty two international awards. www.ptownfilmfest.org

Shirley Babashoff was the most successful female U.S. Olympian prior to the 1990s, with a total of eight Olympic medals. Although she never won an individual Olympic gold medal, she is recognized as one of the greatest freestyle swimmers of all time. Babashoff set eleven world records (six in individual events and an additional five in relay events) and also set thirty-nine U.S. records (seventeen individual and twenty-two

relay). At one point, she held the U.S. freestyle record at every distance from 100-meter to 800-meter.Apart from her record-breaking ability, Babashoff had a fine competitive record in major championships, winning—

including relays —twenty-seven AAU titles, in addition to taking the 200-meter and 400-meter individual gold medals at the 1975 World Championships. Her greatest performance ever came at the 1976 Olympic Trials, where she won every freestyle event and the 400-meter individual medley. She set three U.S. records in the heats and three more in the finals, and broke the world record in the 800-meter freestyle. This ranks among the greatest swimming feats of all time.

Babashoff was infamously vilified by many in the media in 1976 because she complained that the East German swimmers who had defeated her, notably Kornelia Ender, were obviously using performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs). After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990, documents from the East German secret police, the Stasi, were found that confirmed all of Babashoff’s suspicions.

On April 30, 2005, Babashoff received the Olympic Order, the highest award of the Olympic Movement, during the Inaugural Olympic Assembly Luncheon. The IOC established the Olympic Order in 1974 to honor individuals who have illustrated the Olympic ideals through their actions, achieved remarkable merit in the sporting world, or rendered outstanding services to the Olympic cause, either through their own personal achievements or their contributions to the development of sport.

Shirley BabashoffEight-Time Olympic Medalist

Rachael McClinton is the co–founder and Artistic Director of Living Voices. She received Theatre training at SUNY Purchase and Bennington College.

As Artistic Director of Living Voices, she performs and manages the company’s outreach. Living Voices is a nationally-recognized, educational theatre company that offers a personal approach towards understanding important periods in history and

applying their significance for today’s audiences. www.livingvoices.org

Rachael McClintonCo-Founder and Artistic Director of Living Voices

Allison grew up as an "army brat," living in six different cities before high school followed by studying psychology and art at the University of Florida and Naropa University. She is an Olympic Silver Medalist, held a World Record that stood unbroken for 14 years, and was a 13-Time National Champion in the sport of swimming. Allison is devoted to promoting the Olympic spirit of pursuing excellence with integrity. She

has long participated in athlete-related advocacy with groups such as Art of the Olympians and Team Darfur. Allison was a founding member of Art of the Olympians which promotes Olympic values through educational outreach programs for both sport and art. She was also an active member of Team Darfur, an international association of athletes raising awareness of humanitarian crises related to war in Darfur. Having lost four gold medals in major competitions to athletes who were doping, she is passionate about contributing to the Olympic anti-doping effort. In her current professional life, she helps others as a performance mentor.

Allison WagnerOlympic Silver Medalist & World Record Holder

About Our Speakers

Kathleen Brown is a Partner in the Government and Regulatory Affairs Group at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. Her practice focuses on business counseling and government and regulatory affairs, particularly as they relate to the healthcare, energy, real estate, and financial services sectors. Ms. Brown’s background includes 18 years as a senior

executive in the banking and financial services industry and 16 years of public sector experience.Ms. Brown joined Manatt in 2013 after more than 12 years at Goldman Sachs, where she served as Chairman of Midwest

Investment Banking and, prior to that, as Managing Director and Head of the firm’s Western Region Public Sector and Infrastructure Group. Ms. Brown also held various senior positions with Bank of America, including President of the Private Bank.

From 1990 to 1994, Ms. Brown served as California’s State Treasurer, where she managed a $25 billion bond portfolio, oversaw a $32 billion cash management fund, and served as a trustee on the boards of CALPERS and CALSTRS, two of the largest pension funds in the nation.

Ms. Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law. She is a Director of Sempra Energy (NYSE: SRE), Renew Financial, Stifel Financial Corp. and Five Point Holdings, LLC, and serves on the Board of the National Park Foundation.

Kathleen BrownPartner in the Government and Regulatory Affairs Group at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Maria Giese wrote and directed the 1996 feature film When Saturday Comes starring Sean Bean and Pete Postlethwaite, and the award-winning digital feature film Hunger based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner Knut Hamsun. She has also directed two Cine Gold Eagle winning short films and has written three screenplays which have been produced into feature films.

In 2011 she turned her attention to the underrepresentation of women directors in United States media. She began researching and writing about viable legal strategies to remediate illegal discrimination against women in Hollywood, citing Title VII. Finally, in 2015 after 4 years of activism in the Directors Guild of America, Giese became the person who instigated the biggest industry-wide Federal investigation for women directors in Hollywood history, going on now.

In The New York Times, Manohla Dargis referred to her work as “a veritable crusade." She is now the subject of five feature-length documentaries in production and has been signed by the Boston literary agency Kneerim & Williams to write a book, “Troublemaker," about her work getting the ACLU and EEOC to investigate this issue— the ramifications of which are resonating globally.

Giese holds a BA from Wellesley College and a Master’s degree from UCLA's Graduate School of Theatre, Film and Television. In 2016 she was awarded the prestigious EQUITY AWARD from Stanford University. She founded the activist-agitator web forum Women Directors in Hollywood, and her articles have appeared in Ms. Magazine, Elle, Film Inquiry, IndieWIRE. Giese herself has recently been profiled in Bloomberg TV, ABC Live, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Fortune, and The Hollywood Reporter, among others.

Maria GieseWriter and Director of Feature Films

Sue ToigoCo-Founder of The Robert Toigo Foundation

Sue Toigo divides her professional time between pro bono fundraising and mentoring with the Toigo Foundation and raising investment capital for emerging global private equity and hedge funds with Fitzgibbon Toigo Associates. The Toigo Foundation supports 120 minority students each year at 17 top business schools and has over 1,200 alumni in financial services.

Sue spent 16 years as the lobbyist for the California Children’s Lobby and 14 years on the Columbia Business School Board of Overseers. She has served as a visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellow at universities in Texas, Nebraska, and Indiana, and spoken on behalf of the U.S. State Department in Australia, New Zealand, Syria, and Chile.

Sue is married to Ambassador Derek Shearer who currently teaches foreign policy at Occidental College.

Elizabeth RedleafPrize-winning film producer

To produce, support, and sustain all forms of art — high, low, and emerging — requires a unique combination of understanding and drive. Elizabeth Redleaf has been intimately involved in funding art forms and helping them flourish for decades. Her connection with film, in particular, is both aesthetic and analytical, matched with a keen sense of detail and command of the same.

She has reviewed films in print and has sponsored independent filmmakers through The Walker Art Center's Women in Vision International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, and Mountainfilm. She founded and co-chairs the Walker Art Center Film Society with Bill Pohlad of River Road Productions and has served as a board member of Minnesota Film Arts. She also serves on the IFP Minnesota Advisory Board. Her love of film, combined with her ability to get wheels turning, led her to found Werc Werk Works, a film production company established with a mission of supporting artists and rewarding profit partners.

Elizabeth's involvement in film is nurtured by her broader commitments to the arts community. She is a board member for multiple organizations, including chamber music, dance, visual art, and a major metropolitan library. She has made substantial contributions to the arts and has been a force in persuading others to do the same.

About Our Speakers

Kaitlyn Farrington is an Olympic Gold Medalist in snowboard halfpipe. Originally I am from Sun Valley, ID but now live in Salt Lake City, UT. I grew up skiing but made the swap to snowboarding when I was 12 and that was it for me. I had the dreams to become an Olympian! Little did I know I was going to be an Olympic Gold Medalist.

Kaitlyn FarringtonOlympic Gold Medalist

Joanne B. Freeman is a Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, specializing in the politics and political culture of revolutionary and early national America. She is the author of the award-winning Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic and editor of Alexander Hamilton: Writings. A frequent lecturer

on America’s Founding period, Freeman has appeared on PBS, The History Channel, NPR, CNN, and BBC Radio, among others. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Atlantic Magazine, and Slate Magazine, as well as in many scholarly publications. One of the nation’s leading experts on Alexander Hamilton, she was a leading consultant for the National Park Service’s reconstruction of his home, The Grange. Freeman serves on the board of the National Council for History Education, the Library of America, and the International Center for Jefferson Studies. She is currently completing her third book, The Field of Blood: Congressional Violence and the Road to Civil War, a study of physical violence in the U.S. Congress, and beginning her fourth book, Hunting for Hamilton, an introduction to the fun and challenges of getting to know Hamilton and his world.

Joanne B. FreemanProfessor of History and American Studies at Yale University

Jennifer Siebel Newsom is a filmmaker, Founder and CEO of The Representation Project, advocate, and thought leader. After graduating with honors from Stanford University and Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, she wrote, directed, and produced the 2011 award-winning documentary Miss Representation. As a result of Miss Representation’s

powerful impact, she launched The Representation Project, a nonprofit organization that uses film and media as a catalyst for cultural transformation. Her second film as a director, The Mask You Live In, had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and explores how America’s narrow definition of masculinity is harming boys, men, and society at large. She also executive produced the Emmy Award-Winning and Academy Award-Nominated documentary The Invisible War, and is an executive producer on the documentary The Hunting Ground. She is currently in production on her third film, The Great American Dream. When she is not running The Representation Project and making documentaries, she serves as a Global Advisory Board member of the Dove Self Esteem Project, co-chair of We Day California, a commissioner on the Girl Scouts’ Healthy Media Commission, and on the Advisory Council for the Imagine Kids Bus Project. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, and their four young children.

Jennifer Siebel NewsomFilmmaker, Founder and CEO of The Representation Project

A member of CIA’s Senior Analytic Service, Gina Bennett is currently the Tradecraft Program Manager for the Directorate of Analysis. Ms. Bennett is a long-time counterterrorism specialist who authored the earliest warnings of today's terrorism trends, including the 1993 report that warned of the growing danger of Osama Bin

Laden and the extremist movement he was fomenting. Her analysis has been called "prescient," "genius" and "prophetic" by major media and former government officials who recognize the insightfulness of her work over decades. Her 27-year career in the counterterrorism field includes authoring the hotly debated 2006 National Intelligence Estimate “Trends in Global Terrorism Implications for the US” while she was the Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats; serving as the CIA staff member of the Congressionally-mandated National Commission on Terrorism in 1999-2000; contributing to the formation of the targeting career discipline; and holding a variety of positions in Washington, DC and in the field on most every aspect of terrorism and analytic tradecraft.

Ms. Bennett was featured in the 2015 Showtime documentary, Spymasters, the HBO documentary, Manhunt, and in the PBS documentary, Makers: Women Who Make America in their episode on women in war for her role as a trailblazing woman in the counterterrorism field. She has been featured in Newsweek for her role as a female pioneer in the targeting discipline and in a forthcoming Newsweek issue highlighting women at the CIA; and on Oprah for her book, National Security Mom.

Ms. Bennett graduated from the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia in 1988 and earned a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies as a Distinguished Graduate from the US Marine Corps War College.

Gina Bennett Tradecraft Program Manager for the Directorate of Analysis

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